99 "I Think We Have a Problem."

PingZe closed the door behind him before he joined the three on the floor, sending some of the talisman papers flying with his sudden arrival. But none of the four paid the papers' any attention. They were all focused on the one between them, childe Ma's talisman.

But it didn't make sense, no matter how hard MingYu thought over the situation. If indeed childe Ma had been carrying this specific talisman with him this entire time, how come none of them detected any malevolent energy around the youth? Even on the night, they had witnessed Ma DaDong walk upon the wall in a trance-like state, there had been no shifts in energy, nothing.

With such a talisman, Ma DaDong was practically a walking pillar of light, attracting wandering and vengeful spirits like flies to the flame. There was no way not even a single ghost had found its way into the Ma estate.